Babes in Arms

Abstract

The umbilicus of the 1990s is hardly severed, yet the neonate cries out the message of fresh and vigorous surface-to-surface contacts between the great powers. The American president is no longer seen as a “missile-toting cowboy”; he is now “kind Uncle Sam” in Mr. Gorbachev’s eyes. Last Christmas, kids dragged their parents to Bloomingdale’s or the U.N. to catch a glimpse of the supreme Soviet. In the fairy-tale world of newscasting, the unprecedented traffic snarl-ups resulting from his visit were affectionately dubbed “Gorbilock.” This Christmas, Eastern Europe seems to be blossoming early while Lithuania prepares for self-emancipation. Even Castro confronts voluble demands for reform.

Keywords

Recombination Schizophrenia Posit Stein Arena

We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us. We are set down in life as in the element to which we best correspond, and over above this we have, through thousands of years of accommodation, become so much like this life that, when we hold still, we are, through a happy mimicry, scarcely to be distinguished from all that surrounds us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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